GrockDoc.com - writing for pleasure.
This week I will publish 3 new Cassandra articles per day to coincide with Cassandra Summit.
https://grockdoc.com/cassandra/2.1/articles
Next week I'll likely start writing/publishing articles on webpack.
I built a business strategy robot. Answer a handful of yes/no questions, get actionable advice for free. http://taprun.com/robot/
I was hoping to launch a prototype of my food web app, but I just realized that I had added some enhancements to a number of its dependencies so I am working on pull requests to give back.
I just finished a fun little Geiger Counter prop - realistic look and sound, but with a slide potentiometer under the thumb so you can crank the radioactivity up or down on a whim.
The Arduino code for the DFRobot Beetle that runs it is here: https://github.com/Qworg/GeigerCounterSimulator
http://codingbrain.com - a knowledge management app aimed at software devs and technical bloggers.
It's a local search engine, web scraper, note taking, markdown editor, bookmarking, history app. I've been pondering a tool like that for a long time and it's now almost ready for the public.
Machine learning competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/springleaf-marketing-response
Trying to build a more generic and reusable system to tackle ML problems (competition oriented though, not real world)
Working on the final touches for a real time bidder:http://www.aychedee.com/2015/09/18/writing-a-real-time-bidde....
I'm working on a demo video for my photo cross posting app Polarfox. (http://www.polarfox.com)
The video will show how easy it is to post photos to muliple social networks and blogs at once.
Project: https://www.ghostnoteapp.com
Work: Mostly fixing a bunch El Capitain related issues with my side project
TPS Reports ::sigh::
I've been trying to drag my focus back around to more AI / Machine Learning stuff for a while, so to give myself a sandbox to play with (and a starting point) I built[1] an AIML[2] bot using program-ab[3]. Then I wired it up to XMPP[4] so I could chat with it. Then I turned it into an OSGI[5] bundle so it could run in Apache Felix[6]. And I installed ejabberd[7] on the fogbeam.org domain so I would have a convenient place to play with bots that talk XMPP.
Right now it doesn't do much besides replying to a few stock inputs like "hi" and "howdy" and "Hello", but I just started on this about a week or two ago. I also started adding "@ commands", and it will respond to "@time" with the current time.
From here on out my plan is to get back into studying AI techniques heavily again and see what things I can do to make this bot "smarter". I have done a lot of work based on Semantic Web technologies, so I'll probably start working on how to do some stuff with this based on using an RDF[8] based knowledge-store. There are a couple of OSS projects out there for translating natural language queries into SPARQL[9], so I might soon try wiring this up to where it can use dbPedia and / or Wikidata, as well as other Linked Data[10] sources to answer questions.
I'm not strictly interested in any Turing Test or Loebner Prize[11] stuff, as I'm more interested in making something useful than something that emphasizes "tricking" somebody into thinking it's human. That said, if it ever worked well enough, I think it would be fun to enter something like the Loebner contest, but that's not the main goal here.
Also, right now I'm reading Hofstadter's book Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies, and have been playing around with ACT-R[12], a popular "cognitive architecture" for doing AI research.
[1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/LearningAIML
[2]: http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html
[3]: https://code.google.com/p/program-ab/
[4]: http://xmpp.org/
[5]: http://www.osgi.org/
[7]: http://ejabberd.org
[9]: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
[10]: http://linkeddata.org/
http://orangemind.io - I have created a blog where I collect the best short stories that I write(most of them are funny scifi flash fiction written in response to propmts on /r/writingpropmts)
You can read my story "The Game"(http://orangemind.io/story/the-game), and if you like it - subscribe to the monthly updates about the best stuff that I create, you will probably like it =)